VENDREDI 20 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 4.1ETAT ACTUEL DE LA QUESTION DU YETIpar Benoît Grison
In spite of its popular discredit, some respected scientists still turn one’s attention to the Yeti question, which incited the author to write this short review, intended for uninformed naturalists. After an historical skimming of the casebook, the analysis of some unexplained tracks and of material evidence is done : it clearly tends to show that the possibility of the existence of an unknown pongid in the Himalayas is highly probable. A synthetic description of this anthropoid, based on reliable testimonial evidence, and ecological/zoogeographical data are given.
In conclusion, the problem of the systematic relationships of the unknown ape with Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene fossil forms from China, Vietnam and Indian subcontinent is approached.

VENDREDI 20 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 4.2RECHERCHES SUR DES HOMINIENS INCONNUS DE REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINEpar Christian Le Noël
Certain hominians, still unknown, may have survived in Africa : traditions, especially in Central Africa, speak of " bush-dwarfs " who live in really out-of-the-way places. They are described as being small, about as tall as a young boy of ten or eleven, stocky, very vigorous and dark-skinned ; they have their own language, they make their own natural weapons and they wear skirts made of hide, but nevertheless they don’t build any permanent abodes ; they live on berries and wild honey. The legend goes that they captivate the will of any casual passers-by, taking them prisoner and releasing them later after a teach about how to cure themselves by plants. All known descriptions agree on this point, and there is not one which gives the lie to the others : everything seems to fit in. The vernacular languages all have precise words to describe these dwarfs : some of these words which are used to mention the dwarfs are also used to describe the surrounding natural phenomena such as hills and caves. There were allegedly many more of these dwarfs in the past than there are now, the Bantus used them as carriers, or killed them as game, according to the testimony of a Portuguese navigator of the 16th century.
The author has personally pieced together two different accounts, one from Oumar Boukar, a 50 years old Arab businessman, who claimed to have met one of these bush-dwarfs in 1965, while he was hunting and he fand himself separated from his companions ; the other testimony comes from a missionary father from Yppi who thought he had met a little boy belonging to one of his fellow tribesman, but was in fact a bush-dwarf : the latter almost broke his bones while shaking hands. In the same regions, cupules cut out in the rocks by human hands were also found. The author of this text also discovered newly made foot-prints of very small size, at a distance much too far away from the villages to suppose that they were made by a child.
These bush-dwarfs may well be descendants of the Koïsan lineage ; the same identical evidence has been reported from Kenya, and yet Kenya is by no means near Central Africa. Certain ethnologists have not counted out the fact of a possible survive by certain primitive races in the very place where they first appeared.
The native inhabitants of this area are familiar with certain caves which are supposed to be or to have been the refuge of bush-dwarfs, as well as dozens of burial mounds, made of nodules of laterite, which are incomprehensible to everybody. Finally in the prefecture of La Lobaye in 1988, hunters shot down a creature which was so strange that they dared not eat it, and they brought it to the chief of police who had it burried on the spot. A report was sent to the head of the state who wrote in the margin in his hand-writing the following comment : "A pity as far as science is concerned".

VENDREDI 20 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 4.3UNE FIGURATION DE L’HOMME SAUVAGE DANS LES PYRENEES ?par
Michel RaynalIn 1760, an article was published about a so-called "satyr" shown in Barcelona ( Spain ) : It was a human-like hairy creature with some strange features, such as "ears like a tiger’s" or "whiskers like a cat’s". An illustration is available, but it was made from the article, not by a first-hand witness ; from an analysis of the text, having in mind the data summarized in RAYNALs previous article for BIPEDIA ( RAYNAL 1989 ), this creature seems to be a relict Neanderthal from the Pyrénées.

VENDREDI 20 JUIN 2003
BIPEDIA 4.4MAN, AS AN ANCESTRAL VERTEBRATE(part 1)
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François de SarreThe text presented below is the English version of a lecture which was given by the author in September 1989 in Nice ( France ), during a convention organized by the UTP ( Université du Temps Présent ). The exposé which follows provides a clear and concise résumé of the essentials of the Initial Bipedalism Theory.